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The Responsible Manager (Spanish version)
Prahalad, C.K.Article HBS-F1001GLeadership and People ManagementManagers must remember that they are the custodians of society's most powerful institutions, and as such they must hold themselves to a higher standard. They must strive to achieve success with responsibility. He offers 11 specific pieces of advice intended to spur his listeners to reexamine their values before plunging into everyday routines. Among them are 1) Display a commitment to learning and developing yourself. 2) Put personal performance...Starting at €8.20
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Serving the World's Poor, Profitably (Spanish version)
Prahalad, C.K.; Hammond, AllenArticle HBS-R0209CEconomicsBy stimulating commerce and development at the bottom of the economic pyramid, multinationals could radically improve the lives of billions of people and help create a more stable, less dangerous world. Achieving this goal does not require MNCs to spearhead global social-development initiatives for charitable purposes. They need only act in their own self-interest. How? The authors lay out the business case for entering the world's poorest market...Starting at €8.20
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Uber Comes to Boston
Gomez-Ibanez, Jose; Hogge, PaulCase HBS-KS1240-EOn August 5, 2016, Governor Charlie Baker signed into law Massachusetts' first statewide regulations on ride-sharing services like Uber and Lyft. The law was a monumental victory for the ride-sharing companies given that a few years earlier state officials tried to ban the startups from doing business in Massachusetts. The outcome was a major defeat for the taxi industry, whose drivers and license holders argued that their livelihoods were severe...Starting at €8.20
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Vision Mumbai
Gomez-Ibanez, Jose; Masood, Sheikh ZahidCase HBS-HKS119-EEconomicsIn 2006 officials of the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai and the State of Maharashtra were beginning to implement a plan to improve the economic fortunes of the city. Mumbai, formerly known as Bombay, was India's richest city, with wealth based on trade, finance and filmmaking. But the city was also famous for its enormous slums, terrible traffic congestion, and poor infrastructure. And while India's economy had been growing rapidly since...Starting at €8.20
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Innovation's Holy Grail
Prahalad, C.K.; Mashelkar, R.A.Article HBS-R1007N-EStrategyAffordability and sustainability, not premium pricing and abundance, are the new tenets of effective innovation. Westerners are struggling with the shift in mind-set, but a few emerging-market pioneers are showing the way: They're designing inexpensive products and manufacturing them with so little capital and on a scale so vast that their prices-1 cent for a one-minute telephone call, $2,000 for a car-are the lowest in the world. Nowhere is this...Starting at €8.20
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Restructuring Mass Transit in Singapore (Abridged), Teaching Note
Gomez-Ibanez, JoseTeaching Note HBS-KS1247-EEconomicsTeaching note for case KS1246.Starting at €0.00
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Ho Chi Minh City
Gomez-Ibanez, Jose; Xuan Thanh, NguyenCase HBS-HKS115-EEconomicsIn March 2008 the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City, formerly known as Saigon, approved a revised master plan designed to guide the development of the city through the year 2025. Vietnam's economy had been growing at rates of 6 to 8 percent per year for nearly two decades, and much of that growth was located in its cities, and in Ho Chi Minh City in particular. Real estate prices were at all time highs, development pressures threatened the h...Starting at €8.20
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Lagos Metropolitan Area Transportation Authority (LAMATA)
Gomez-Ibanez, JoseCase HBS-KS1156-EIn 2011 the World Bank and others were concerned that cities all over the developing world were losing their battle with increasing traffic congestion in part because they lacked institutions that had the authority and the capacity to promote public transportation in an integrated fashion. Lagos was one of the few major cities in the developing world to have a metropolitan area public transportation authority with broad powers, independent resour...Starting at €8.20
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Hubway (A): Bike Sharing in Boston
Gomez-Ibanez, Jose; Johnston, TrevorCase HBS-KS1180-EIn the summer of 2014, Alta Bicycle Share, Inc had just won its second contract to operate the Hubway bike sharing system in the cities of Boston, Brookline, Cambridge and Somerville in Eastern Massachusetts. Emily Stapleton, Hubway's General Manager, was engaged in conversations with project managers from each of the four client municipalities about when and where to expand the system. Expansion was on the agenda because Hubway was widely percei...Starting at €8.20
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Leasing the Pennsylvania Turnpike
Gomez-Ibanez, Jose; Foote, JohnCase HBS-HKS102-EEntrepreneurshipIn June 2007, the governor of Pennsylvania, was negotiating with the state's legislative leaders about his proposal to lease the Pennsylvania Turnpike to private investors. Leasing public highways to private companies was unheard of in the United States until the City of Chicago leased the Chicago Skyway, an 8-mile toll expressway, for $1.83 billion in 2005 and the State of Indiana leased the 157-mile Indiana Toll Road for $3.85 billion in 2006....Starting at €8.20